The Last Policeman (Last Policeman, #1)

by Ben H. Winters

The date that everybody knows is October 3, six months and eleven days from today, when a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth.

when he says “when it all first started up,” he means early summer of last year, when the asteroid entered the public consciousness in a serious way.

Odds of impact one hundred percent. October 3. No options.

People have been trying to assassinate the president, that’s one of the deranged features of the national scene, the last three months—that’s the joke there.

Everybody always wanted to do something, and here come the guys who always wanted to joyride in a city bus.

Maia, we now know, is going to land in Indonesia. They can’t or won’t name an impact spot with a hundred percent certainty, but the vicinity is the Indonesian archipelago,

Nico, Peter, Naomi, Erik—everybody hoarding secrets, changing. Maia, from 280 million miles, having her way with us all.